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Support
10-26-2002, 07:40 AM
I badly need you all to help me by telling me what screen resolutions you are using, I'm trying to compile a list for an upcoming tutorial.
I'm at 1024 X 768
Derek
10-26-2002, 08:37 AM
1024x768
PeLLaRaS
10-26-2002, 10:41 AM
800 X 600
eric_darling
10-27-2002, 03:06 PM
1024 x 768 on 4 computers, 800 x 600 on 1 (older Win 98 machine).
Lorne
10-28-2002, 09:39 AM
1152 x 864 and 1280 x 960
Michael
10-30-2002, 08:51 PM
1024x768
BUT.......use 800x600
for projects or full screen because
most are still using it.
Brett
10-30-2002, 08:54 PM
10240x7680 on my 61" Plasma screen. I had to sell my house but it was worth it. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif
Corey
10-31-2002, 12:45 AM
My first computer, an Apple ][+ in 1978 was 279 X 159 in hi-res mode or 40 X 30 in lo-res mode.
Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)
Brett
10-31-2002, 09:12 AM
Hey, there is really no need for that kind of unfounded boasting on this board, Corey. Some of us poor kids had to use Commodore 64s with dataset tape drives (the kind that used audio tapes). It took 1 birthday and 2 Christmases until I could afford a "floppy drive". Anyone else still have 200+ 5.25" C64 floppies in the basement?
Lorne
10-31-2002, 09:31 AM
At least you HAD a Datasette. I had to type my programs back in every time I shut the **** thing off. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif
After a year and a half of that, I got a box of 5.25" disks from my aunt and uncle for Christmas. I remember thanking them for getting me something for the computer, "but I don't have a disk drive. Well, maybe I'll be able to use them some day."
When we got back from my grandparents' farm, there was a big box under our tree at home...my parents had bought me a floppy drive.
Ah, the smell of styrofoam and plastic. /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif
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my first comp had a Cyrix 200MhZ and 16 mB of ram and a 1 Gig hard drive. But I guess you "Classic" folk don't need to hear my sob story as I bought my first comp in 1996 as opposed to your guys 1986...
1024 X 768 for me at the office and 800 X 600 at home
eric_darling
10-31-2002, 01:48 PM
Atari 400, 1983, I believe. We eventually got the tape drive, too, although it only really worked maybe 75% of the time. The keyboard was flat, as if someone simply laid a sheet of plastic over a circuit board. The programs ran from cartridge - I had BASIC on a cartridge. I remember being jealous of the kid down the street who got the 800 (dual cartridges and a real keyboard).
Still they were great gaming machines for their day! Joust? Space Invaders? Asteroids? Pac Man? I really sucked at Centipede.
Derek
10-31-2002, 04:25 PM
The first one i used was my Dad's C64, but the first one I owned was a new Commodore 128.
It had just arrived on the market and cost me 328.00
I got a special deal on the 1541 5.25" floppy drive and dot matrix printer as an 'all in 1 box special' for 199.99
I later sold the floppy drive for 200 (to some poor soul) and the printer for 100
Dont remember what happened to the C128. I always remember the graphics on the 'very latest' games for the 128 'blew me away' coz they looked better than anything else I had seen on a home computer (as I recall) ... and that would have been in 1985? or there abouts [life slips by].
Corey
10-31-2002, 09:22 PM
The "Hplot" thickens (Apple users will get that one)
Whatever happened to good old GOSUB...
Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software (http://www.indigorose.com)
Lorne
11-01-2002, 11:50 AM
Heh, a friend of mine had a C128...it's too bad it was never really utilized in any games. That thing had some potential.
So did anyone else here use an Amiga, too? /ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif
A500, then eventually an A1200, which I used until some time in '98 I think.
TJ_Tigger
11-04-2002, 04:56 PM
1152 x 864
zeroseven
11-09-2002, 02:12 AM
1024 x 768
Blazin' Y'all! /ubbthreads/images/icons/wink.gif
MrENigma
11-10-2002, 11:33 PM
As a matter of fact I do! Except it is in a footlocker, along with my boxed Commordore 64C, 1541 disk drive boxed, and my amazing 9pin printer (or did I dump that? Ithink that I may have since it was not part of the original equipment).
Missing the days of Mail Order Monsters, Archon (1-3), and Zork!
Lorne
11-12-2002, 04:15 AM
Heh, I've often thought about doing a remake of Archon with a modern graphics engine...
eric_darling
11-12-2002, 04:56 AM
Sign me up for the Beta test! I spent many an evening with my brother on that game... Ah... Geek memories!
LochWar
11-14-2002, 07:12 AM
I'm using 1024x768 on four machines, 800x600 on one, and 1280x1024 on one.
LochWar
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